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A 15-year-old has been charged with having child pornography, police said. The boy, a juvenile under the law, turned himself in to the Southbury police today on a charge of second-degree possession of child pornography. The charge means the boy had 20 or more — but less than 50 — images of child porn, police said. An investigation by the Southbury police showed that the boy downloaded the images onto a home computer by using a file-sharing program called Limewire.

A former college student pleaded guilty Friday to maintaining a child pornography ring on a Fairfield University computer network, the U.S. attorney's office said. David Hoppel, 22, of Southampton, Pa., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in New Haven to possession of child pornography. While a Fairfield student, Hoppel operated a server that allowed Internet users to gain access to his pornography collection, including more than 100 images of children. The pornography was discovered during maintenance of the computer network.

The owner of a Harwinton video store has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for possession of three videotapes depicting child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen C. Robinson said Monday. Donald D'Angelo, 57, the owner of Harwinton Video, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge Janet B. Arterton. D'Angelo had pleaded guilty in July. His arrest and conviction stemmed from an undercover investigation into the distribution of child pornography throughout Connecticut, Robinson said.

An East Hartford man was indicted this week by a federal grand jury in New Haven on a charge of possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen C. Robinson said. Charles Dauray, 42, possessed three or more pictures that had been transported via interstate commerce, Robinson said.

Child porn charges against a former spokesman for Sacred Heart University sports stemmed from an undercover FBI probe that started on the other side of the country, according to court documents obtained Monday. Eugene Gumbs, 49, of Forest Glen Circle in Middletown, appeared in Superior Court on charges of importing child pornography and second-degree illegal possession of child porn. He did not enter a plea. Gumbs had posted $35,000 bail after his April 30 arrest; his next court date is June 9. According to the warrant for his arrest, FBI agents in San Francisco conducted an online investigation of hello.

A former Montville police constable who was convicted of possessing child pornography will spend 120 days in a federal prison. John Salmon, 39, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in New Haven after pleading guilty on April 25 to possession of child pornography that had been transmitted over the Internet. Upon release, Salmon will remain under supervision for 10 years, according to the U.S. attorney for Connecticut. Salmon, formerly of 33-3 Windermere Ave., Vernon, used the Internet to obtain more than 160 images of child pornography.

A South Windsor man has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography. Richard G. Kasheta Jr., 29, formerly of 659 Main St., pleaded guilty Tuesday in Superior Court in Manchester. He was arrested in May 2006. South Windsor police began investigating Kasheta after they were tipped by state police that child pornography images may have been e-mailed to someone in South Windsor. The state police computer crime unit discovered an e-mail address that turned out to be Kasheta's during a separate investigation.

A former Rockville man has been arrested on federal child pornography charges and is being held without bond pending a detention hearing Tuesday. The federal indictment charges Dwayne L. Ames, 37, with two counts of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 35 years in prison. Ames, who now lives in Maine, already faced 29 state counts of child sexual assault stemming from a relationship he allegedly had with a girl beginning when she was 9. U.S Attorney Stephen C. Robinson said Ames was arrested Wednesday as he left Rockville Superior Court, where the state charges have been pending since he was arrested last year.

By DAVID OWENS, dowens@courant.com and The Hartford Courant, May 26, 2011

State police have charged a Garfield Road man with possession of more than 50 images of child pornography. A state trooper with the computer crimes electronic evidence laboratory found suspected images of child pornography that had been shared from an internet account assigned to Normand Raymond's home, police said. Troopers obtained a search warrant for Raymond's home and seized a computer and related equipment. During an examination of that computer, images and videos of suspected child pornography were found, police said.

By HILLARY FEDERICO, hfederico@courant.com and The Hartford Courant, May 19, 2011

Four people have been arrested on possession of child pornography charges. Joseph L. Imperiale, 26, of 220 Main St., Apt. 2F, New Hartford; Steven Bailey, 30, of 71 Jepson Drive, Milford; Joseph Amadeo, 26, of 26 Countryside Circle, North Branford; and David Rieger, 49, of 12 Fairview Ave., Shelton, were all charged with possession of child pornography, promoting a minor in obscene performance and obscenity. State police said the arrest warrants for each of the four men were obtained between May 12 and May 19 as part of an ongoing investigation into the sharing of suspected child pornography via the Internet and online accounts.